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A need to grow AUM makes secondaries an attractive bet

TPG's entry as the latest multi-asset manager to the secondaries market is likely to not be the last this year.

2 min read · 06 August 2020

Digitisation, bolt-ons key for GPs in top markets to thrive

Benelux, the Nordics and the UK were top performers in the buyout markets last year, data from eFront show.

2 min read · 06 August 2020

CalPERS CIO Meng resigns amid questions over personal investments

Meng was in the process of launching a leveraged push into private equity and private credit.

3 min read · 06 August 2020

What LPs want

What investors are looking for and what emerging managers are prepared to offer are not always the same thing.

5 min read · 06 August 2020

Side Letter: On CalPERS's CIO resignation, Carlyle performance visualised, a new GP stakes investor

Shock news from California this morning: the world's eighth largest investor in private equity is once again without a CIO. Plus: a new player in the GP stakes market, Ares fundraising update and Carlyle's fund performance visualised. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

3 min read · 06 August 2020

CalPERS begins search for next CIO as incumbent Meng resigns

Meng’s short tenure saw the $390bn institution announce a controversial leverage strategy to meet its long-term return target.

2 min read · 06 August 2020

Wind Point just shy of $1.2bn target set for ninth mid-market fund

Fund IX’s existing commitments already make it the biggest capital pool in Wind Point Partners' nearly four-decade history.

2 min read · 05 August 2020

Pasadena city manager slams 'irresponsible' CalPERS messaging on $80bn leverage plan

Steve Mermell said CalPERS was not representing the actual level of risk in its plan and is not being sufficiently transparent.

3 min read · 05 August 2020

As secondaries activity comes back, CPPIB shops $1bn-plus portfolio

While most traditional LP portfolio sales activity is not expected to make a significant comeback until later this year, certain portfolios containing high-quality funds are trading at reasonable prices.

2 min read · 05 August 2020

Pritzker's Carbone sees ideal moment for family capital

Carbone says family capital's flexibility and patience may be appealing to family- and founder-owned businesses facing headwinds due to covid.

4 min read · 05 August 2020

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